Pocket ticket-box



G. RUSSELL.

POCKET TICKET BOX. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21.1919.

Patented Mar 8, 1921.

I UNITED STATES GIIDEON RUSSELL, 0 NORTH VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

POCKET TICKET-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 1921.

Application filed June 21, 1919. Serial No. 305,776.

To all w from it may concern:

Be it known that I, GIDEON RUssELL, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Nolth Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Ticket-Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a ticket holding box having provision by which the tickets may be delivered one at a time as requlred.

The device has been particularly designed to provide a pocket ticket holding box for such tickets as are used on tramways or the like, but is adaptable for any like tickets where it is desirable to keep them together and deliver one at a time.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the box to an enlarged scale.

Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan with a portion removed to show the shortening fence.

The device comprises a shallow rectangular box 2, one end of which is angled upward, as at 5, to a delivery opening 6 between it and the corresponding end of a cover 3, which is hinged to the box along one side at 4.

Along the middle of the cover is a slot 7 and parallel to the edges of the slot is a depression from the inner side. outward. Alon the slot and depression a member 8 is slidable, the edges of which are down wardly turned to engage the outer sides of the projection caused by the inward depression and having portions 14 sheared and downwardly bent from the middle of it through the slot and through a corresponding aperture in the retaining washer plate 13 on which plate they are clenched.

To the after end of the retaining plate 13 is secured a light. resilient spring wire 9. the free end of which is turned downward toward the bottom of the box and is sharply pointed to enga e the upper surface of the tickets 10. The bottom of the box has a lengthwise groove 11 to clear the point of this spring when the box is em ty. v

To provide for possible variation in the sizes of the tickets a small shortening stop 12 is pivoted to the bottom of the box adjacent one end, the end of which member is upwardly turned within the depth of the box. This member 12 may be turned alongside the back end of the box to allow for full length tickets, as shown in Fig. 3, or may be turned outward to the position, as in Fig. l, to accommodate shorter tickets.

I am aware that numerous patents have been granted for ticket holding boxes of this character but in all with which I am acquainted resilient means is provided for holding the tickets against the upper side of the box and into engagement with the ticket projecting means, in which respect they differ from this device where the ticket projecting means resiliently adapts itself to the tickets in the box and the inclined end leads them up to the delivery outlet. This provision tends to greater simplicity in the construction and a more effective action.

- Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

1. ticket holding box comprising in combination with a box adapted to hold tickets and provided with a cover, said box having an aperture at one end through which a ticket may be dropped, said cover having an oili'set slideway. a slide mounted on the cover and having its edges arranged to cooperate with the slideway, said cover being slotted along the slideway, said slide having lugs proieted through said slot, a

washer plate within the oiiset slideway of V the cover and secured by said lu s and a resilient wire finger secured to said washer plate and adapted to engage and proiect one ticket at a time through the end aperture as said slide is moved along the slidewav. said resilient finger being adapted to resiliently engage the upper ticket of any number in the box. substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

2. A ticket holding box. comprising in combination. a shallow rectangular box. one end of which is inclined upwardly and outward, the bo tom of said box being lengthwise grooved. a cover hinged along one side and leaving a space at one end over the inclined end of the box. said cover having a. member slidable along the med al line, and a li ht s rin wire secured to the after end of the slidable member and nroiectin forward and downward from it, the free end of the Wire being pointed to engage a ticket per ticket of any number in the box and and project it from the aperture, said spring project one ticket at a time through said Wire adapted to resiliently engage the upaperture; the bottom of said box being per ticket of any number in the box. grooved to form a recess directly beneath 5 3. A ticket holding box comprising in the said resilient means, whereby said reSili- 1 combination a box adapted to hold tickets ent means can function effectively on the and provided With av cover, said box having last ticket in the box. an aperture at one end through which a In testimony whereoflafiix my signature. ticket may be projected, a slidable resilient 10 means adapted toresiliently engage the up- GIDEON RUSSELL. 

